Under One Person: I Opened the Age of Mythology

Chapter 588

His eyes were tightly closed, his jaw was clenched, and his handsome face was contorted with immense pain.

Deep within consciousness lies a fierce tug-of-war between two wills:
On one hand, there is the awakening of compassion and a desire to protect this scarred land;

On the other side, there was a cold yet alluring whisper of demonic thoughts, transmitted through the earth's veins by the evil crystal:

"Repair? Hypocrisy! The Pure Spiritual Energy is poison, numbing the senses and eroding resistance! The Heavenly Court only wants to drain the earth's marrow and put on a glamorous facade!"

"Look at the Milky Way! What has your 'restoration' brought? Lava has overflowed, and the aquatic creatures have turned into demons! This is the price! The price that comes with the order of the Heavenly Court!"

"Only chaos! Only by returning to the primordial chaos that devours and assimilates everything can true balance and...peace be achieved! Join us...embrace chaos...become a part of eternity..."

"Guardians? Only chaos! Only eternity!" The demonic voice became shrill, like steel needles piercing the soul.

"No...it's not like that..." Jin's consciousness struggled, weak yet tenacious, "Repair...is for...rebirth...for...living..."

He struggled to mobilize his innate affinity for chaos, attempting to calm and soothe the torrent of earth fire beneath his feet, which had become even more violent and was on the verge of exploding due to Yang Jian's forceful blockade of the passage towards the Milky Way. The vast and boundless power of the earth's core surged and collided within him like millions of runaway horses, each attempt to channel it accompanied by excruciating pain that tore at his soul.

"Brother Nezha... Great Sage Sun..." Jin called out in his heart to the figure that had given him new hope, his will as fragile as a candle in the wind, desperately clinging to the last vestige of clarity in his mind. The rock beneath him, unable to withstand the immense force from both inside and outside, groaned under its strain, and fine cracks silently spread. The crimson sphere of light above his head, symbolizing the "Lotus Heart of Earthly Fire" state, flickered violently, and at its core, a tiny yet alarming crack silently appeared!

The lotus heart of the earth fire cracked, and the anchor that sustains the earth veins of Beiju Luzhou is in grave danger!
Meanwhile, deep within the Kunlun Ruins, a newly formed vein of spiritual jade was emerging.

The Earth God and several of the most powerful mountain gods were using their own divine power to suppress the purplish-black cold tide that was constantly spreading from the depths of the mine. Inside the mine tunnel, the crackling sound of ice crystals condensing could be heard incessantly.

"Hold on! We absolutely cannot let this evil energy break through the seal and pollute the newly formed mineral vein!" The Earth God's hair and beard bristled, and his dragon-patterned staff was deeply embedded in the ground, drawing upon the powerful earth energy of the Kunlun ancestral vein, transforming it into an earth-yellow light shield that struggled to resist the biting cold. Beside him, the Mountain God, with a resolute face, had the phantom images of mountains rising and falling behind him, together maintaining the crumbling defense line.

However, deep within the mine, the dark purple evil crystal, sealed by Laozi with the power of the Eight Trigrams Furnace and layers of restrictions, is undergoing a strange transformation.

Within the crystal, the completely corrupted remnant of the golden dew, after absorbing sufficient spiritual energy from the Kunlun earth veins and the dissipated pure spiritual energy, suddenly pulsated! The deep purple evil light, like a heart suddenly contracting, instantly devoured all surrounding light sources. The next moment, an indescribable, extremely malevolent and chilling will erupted!
Om-!
A deep purple circular shockwave, visible to the naked eye, silently pierced through the layers of restrictions set up by Lao Jun, ignoring material obstacles, and slammed hard into the pure, newly formed spirit jade ore walls within the vein!

The warm luster of the spirit jade mine walls, swept by the shockwave, instantly dimmed and vanished, replaced by a deathly, cold, inky purple. Like a plague spreading, vast swathes of spirit jade were contaminated and mutated at an alarming rate!
"Not good!" The Earth God sensed the rapid erosion of the mineral vein's essence, and his old face instantly drained of all color. "The evil crystal's power is polluting the mineral vein! It's drawing on the vein's life force to nourish itself!"

Even more terrifying, as the ore veins became contaminated, a chilling "crackling" sound emanated from the depths of the mine tunnels where the debris had just been cleared away by the heavenly soldiers.

The remains of the miners and celestial soldiers who had been corrupted by evil energy, transformed into amethyst monsters, and then killed were now stiffly and piece by piece rising from the ground under the deep purple evil light, like puppets!

Their shattered amethyst bodies were forcibly glued together by the evil light, and two points of deep purple will-o'-the-wisp danced in their empty eye sockets, exuding an aura of deathly stillness and chaos even stronger than when they were alive!

Amethyst Corpse Puppet!

They caught the scent of the living, let out a silent howl, and with stiff yet swift steps, like a surging purple tide, rushed toward the cave entrance guarded by the Earth God and the Mountain God!
The purplish-black frost, imbued with the resentment of death and the power of evil crystals, spread wildly throughout the mine tunnels as the corpse puppets charged!

The Kunlun mine has been completely transformed into a purple crystal inferno!

Sun Wukong's figure had just burst out of the raging vortex of celestial lava, his golden cudgel still dripping with crimson magma, when a sudden, intense burning pain shot through the karmic fire lotus mark between his brows!

The throbbing of the Luzhou Earth Fire Lotus Heart on the verge of collapse and the mournful cry of the Kunlun Mine being madly corrupted by evil power were like two cold steel needles, piercing his sea of ​​consciousness.

Nine tribulations in succession, the Three Realms are in grave danger!

He suddenly looked up, his golden eyes piercing through the clouds, staring intently in the direction of the Tushita Palace.

Every pulsation of the evil crystal at the bottom of the furnace was like a war drum beating in his heart, clearly proclaiming a cold fact—the nine patterns were complete, and the pace of the demonic embryo's rebirth was accelerating unstoppably!
"Karma is the catalyst...human hearts are the furnace..." Sun Wukong's voice was terrifyingly deep, each word seemingly tempered in karmic fire. "Good! What a Nine-Turn Demon Embryo! Today, I, Old Sun, will use the Three Realms as the furnace and this boundless karmic fire as the fuel to see if your demon embryo can be reborn quickly, or if I, Old Sun, will first refine this Primordial Chaos and Karma-Free Immortal Dao Fruit!"

His aura suddenly erupted, and he no longer held back in the slightest.

With a flicker, he transformed into a golden rainbow faster than lightning, tearing through the sky and hurtling down to the mortal realm—where a colossal city in the mortal world had been ravaged by chaotic miasma and demonized cultivators, accumulating boundless resentment and hatred!
He enters the calamity with his body, and embraces all karma with his heart!
The final test has begun.

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Deep within the Tushita Palace, the Eight Trigrams Furnace, which had suppressed countless ages, suddenly emitted a dying groan.

On the furnace wall, the nine dark purple demonic patterns had completely merged and connected, circulating and emitting dark vortexes that devoured light. The pure Yang purple flames of the Douluo Continent within the furnace were even stained with a layer of viscous, constantly pulsating ink!

"Oh no! The Ninefold Nirvana is about to take shape, and the demonic embryo is about to be formed!"

Laozi's hair and beard bristled, his face as white as the snow-capped peaks of Kunlun. No longer caring about the loss of his own essence, he spat out a mouthful of blood containing the true essence of the Great Dao onto the violently shaking furnace wall.

The ancient Dao patterns formed from the essence and blood had just lit up when they were silently swallowed up by the dark demonic light, like a clay ox sinking into the sea.

"Crack!"

A faint yet devastating cracking sound rang out, enough to shake the entire Three Realms. It wasn't the furnace wall that shattered, but rather the groan of the very laws of space! The dark purple evil crystal within the furnace, perfectly formed with nine patterns, collapsed at that moment!

It collapsed into a "point" that could not be described in terms of size or shape—a chaotic nightmare!
Formless! Without substance! Without light! Without darkness! It is not a physical entity, but the ultimate reflection of the inner demons, karmic obstacles, despair, and greed of all beings, born from the chaotic embryonic core of Nirvana!

Its sole purpose is to devour all order, dragging all beings into an eternal nightmare of depravity. The Nightmare broke free from the Eight Trigrams Furnace, ignoring the myriad restrictions of the Tushita Palace, spreading like ink dropped into clear water. Its arrival brought not earth-shattering pressure, but only a bone-chilling, soul-freezing stillness.

The first drop of "ink" fell silently into Yang Jian's sea of ​​consciousness, who had just commanded the Tianhe Navy to repel a wave of lava water ghosts and was now on high alert against the Tianhe.

Yang Jian's burly body stiffened abruptly. The silver divine light of the Heavenly Eye on his forehead, which had once pierced through the nine netherworlds, was suddenly stained a murky dark purple!

The world in his eyes instantly became distorted, upside down, and smeared with the deepest crimson!
Ahead, the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, who was tearing apart lava monsters and whose golden cudgel was still flowing with celestial lava, suddenly expanded, twisted, and deformed in the vision of his Heavenly Eye!
The sacred golden armor transformed into a pitch-black demonic body covered in scales, the fiery eyes turned into crimson vertical pupils flowing with lava, and the golden cudgel that stabilized the sea twisted into a huge skeleton covered in barbs and dripping with dirty blood!
Countless mournful howls, filled with endless resentment and despair, exploded deep within his soul. They were the wails of the demons of Flower Fruit Mountain as they were slaughtered, and the curses of the grass god of Guankou as he was burned to ashes by heavenly fire.

"Yang Jian! You celestial lackey! You're aiding and abetting evil!"

"Sun Wukong! This world-destroying demon! He wants to burn the Three Realms to ashes! Kill him! Only by killing him can we live!"

The whispers of the nightmare, like billions of cold, poisonous needles, instantly pierced Yang Jian's judicial heart, which had been tempered over ten thousand years. They twisted and magnified the hidden worries about the constraints of the Heavenly Court's iron law and the complex feelings about suppressing Flower Fruit Mountain in the past into a raging fire of "justice"!

"Demon monkey! Prepare to die!" Yang Jian's eyes were devoid of any clarity, filled only with utter madness and icy killing intent, and a roar that was not human-like burst from his throat.

The three-pointed double-edged sword, carrying silver-purple lightning that tore through the void, was no longer a bulwark protecting the Milky Way, but transformed into a life-extinguishing bolt of lightning, fiercely striking down towards the "demonic" head of Sun Wukong!

This is just the beginning!
The Nightmare's "ink" spread like a plague, instantly engulfing the entire Tianhe battlefield.

The elite Tianhe Navy soldiers, who were fighting valiantly to defend against the lava water demons and purify the demonized aquatic creatures, suddenly saw the resolute faces of their comrades twist into hideous monsters! The comrades beside them were no longer brothers who had shared life and death, but evil spirits that had crawled out of hell and were about to drag them into the abyss!

"Kill! Demons are all around us!"

"For the Milky Way! For the Heavenly Court!"

Fear ignited instantly, transforming into a frenzied war of mutual slaughter. One second, the naval soldiers were fighting side by side against the enemy, and the next, they were plunging their weapons into the chests of their unsuspecting comrades!

The cold immortal armor was pierced, and scalding immortal blood mingled with the turbid waters of the Milky Way, splashing everywhere!

The wails, roars, clashes of weapons, and explosions of magic instantly tore apart the battle lines that were barely holding on, turning Tianhe into a blood-and-fire hell on earth!
"Yang Jian!" Sun Wukong swept away the giant lava fist that suddenly attacked with his staff. His golden eyes widened in anger as he saw Yang Jian's third eye, which was completely dyed purple, and the lightning that struck down. His heart trembled violently.

"Inner demons have entered the mind!"

He shouted sharply, his figure flashing, narrowly avoiding the blade's edge that tore through space. His golden cudgel, carrying the force of wind and thunder, slammed heavily onto the blade's shaft.

clang--!
A deafening roar erupted, and the shockwave from below caused the churning waves of lava to cave in. Yang Jian was thrown back several steps by the immense force, his eyes burning with even more madness as he locked his gaze on Sun Wukong.

However, just as Sun Wukong and Yang Jian clashed with their swords and staffs, another unexpected event occurred!
An invisible, chilling force of rules, like billions of invisible chains, instantly pierced through the three realms!

The surging lava torrent beneath the Milky Way, the roaring amethyst corpse tide deep within the Kunlun mine, and the earth fire lotus heart on the verge of collapse in the Pure Karma Valley of Luzhou... these three have been forcibly linked together into a "karmic chain"!
Sun Wukong had just forcefully suppressed an eruption point in the Milky Way's lava passage with his immense magical power, and hadn't even caught his breath—

Deep within the Kunlun Mountains, the enormous amethyst corpse king, which was being desperately suppressed by the Earth God and the Mountain God, suddenly had its ghostly flames in its hollow eye sockets double in size!
It roared silently to the sky, and the shattered amethyst on its body instantly healed, its power increasing wildly!
It swung its giant claws, covered in ice crystals, with a chilling, soul-freezing force and doubled power, and slammed them down on the earthen-yellow light shield that the Earth God was struggling to support!

"Pfft!" The Earth God was struck as if by a heavy blow, spitting out blood. His coiled dragon staff flew out of his hand, and the light barrier shattered in response!
A surging, purplish-black cold tide, carrying a doubled tide of corpse puppets, broke through the blockade and spread wildly out of the mine and toward the newly formed Kunlun mineral vein!

Almost simultaneously, in the Pure Land of Northern Abode.

Jin, who was sitting cross-legged on the red rock, suddenly leaned forward and spat out a mouthful of blood that was burning with purplish-black flames!

The deep purple flame mark between his brows suddenly dimmed, as if it might go out at any moment.

The tiny crack in the "Earth Fire Lotus Heart" phantom hanging overhead instantly exploded, like shattered glass, with countless cracks spreading wildly!

"Ugh—!"

Ember let out a painful howl, the last vestige of power holding the earth's veins almost severed.

The rock beneath them finally gave way and shattered with a deafening roar!
The torrent of fire and earth below, which had been temporarily restrained, went completely berserk, like a ferocious beast that had broken free of its last reins!

A massive, crimson wave of lava tore through the earth, carrying with it destructive primordial gas, and soared into the sky, turning the entire Pure Karma Valley sky into a blood-red apocalyptic wasteland!
Suppressing one place doubles the calamity! The chains of karma are now in place, and the three realms are like being caught in an endless cycle of suffering!
Sun Wukong met Yang Jian's blade head-on, and the golden cudgel hummed mournfully.

Golden Eyes swept over the carnage of the infighting in the Heavenly River, over the communication lights of the defeated Kunlun Town, and finally settled on the molten blood pillar erupting in Luzhou and the cracked, soon-to-be-completely shattered Earth Fire Lotus Heart.

A chilling despair, enough to freeze even the soul of a Great Immortal, instantly engulfed the battlefield like the Milky Way.

The gods fought valiantly, but were corrupted by their inner demons and turned against each other; the foundation of the Three Realms was on the verge of collapse, but was tightly bound by invisible chains, and the more they struggled, the faster it crumbled.

From the direction of the Tushita Palace, the pure malice emanating from that invisible nightmare was like a cold black hole, devouring every glimmer of hope.

The screams of the Tianhe Navy, the roars of the Kunlun Mountain God, and the lamentations of the Luzhou Earth Vein mingled into a doomsday funeral song, echoing deep within the souls that were not yet completely corrupted.

The Chaotic Nightmare, the invisible embodiment of the karmic obstacles of all beings, is orchestrating a self-destructive feast with the Three Realms as its chessboard and all beings as its pieces.

(End of this chapter)